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Selected Works172

Museum Acquisitions

Whitney
MoMA
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Met
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Art Institute of Chicago
SFMOMA
SFMOMA
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Hammer Museum
Harvard Art Museums
Basel Art Museum
Basel Art Museum
Pompidou
Pompidou
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MOCA Los Angeles
MCA Chicago
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Stedelijk Museum

Previous Sales 130

Bonhams
Etel Adnan (Lebanese, 1925-2021) View of Nicasio, California
Etel Adnan (Lebanese, 1925-2021) View of Nicasio, California
Unknown
Jun 2026
Bonhams
Etel Adnan (Lebanon, 1925-2021) Untitled
Etel Adnan (Lebanon, 1925-2021) Untitled
Unknown
Jun 2026
Bonhams
Etel Adnan (Lebanon, 1925-2021) Découverte de l'immédiat 2
Etel Adnan (Lebanon, 1925-2021) Découverte de l'immédiat 2
Unknown
Jun 2026
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled
£8,000 ($11k USD)
Apr 2026
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 1980
£190,500 ($251k USD)
Mar 2026
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled
€20,000 ($22k USD)
Feb 2026
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 2019
£120,650 ($159k USD)
Nov 2025
Christie's
Le poids de la lune 6
Le poids de la lune 6, 2017
€107,950 ($119k USD)
Oct 2025
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled
$381,000
May 2025
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled, 2021
£8,000 ($13k USD)
May 2025
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 2012
£163,800 ($216k USD)
Mar 2025
Christie's
La Solitude de l'Or
La Solitude de l'Or, 2001
€100,800 ($111k USD)
Oct 2024
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled, 2017
£125,437 ($125k USD)
Oct 2024
Christie's
Paysage (Landscape)
Paysage (Landscape), 2014
£138,600 ($183k USD)
Oct 2024
Sotheby's
Tamalpais
Tamalpais
$20,000
Oct 2024
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled
£7,500 ($12k USD)
Aug 2024
Sotheby's
Mountains
Mountains
$19,000
Jul 2024
Sotheby's
Untitled (Sands)
Untitled (Sands)
£120,000 ($201k USD)
Apr 2024
Sotheby's
Untitled (Mount Tamalpais)
Untitled (Mount Tamalpais)
£120,000 ($201k USD)
Apr 2024
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled, 1965
$238,402
Apr 2024
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 2014
£157,500 ($208k USD)
Mar 2024
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled
$556,272
Mar 2024
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled, 2010
$95,250
Mar 2024
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 2015
HK$630,000 ($81k USD)
Nov 2023
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 2017
$88,200
Nov 2023

For Sale 4

White Cube · Artsy
Untitled
Untitled, 2015
Inquire about availability
Oil on canvas
Galerie Lelong · Artsy
Cosmic Balance 5
Cosmic Balance 5, 2020
Price on request
Oil on canvas
Clifton Gallery · 1stDibs
Untitled Colour Study
Untitled Colour Study
$34,023
Clifton Gallery · 1stDibs
La Commedia dell'arte dei calamai I
La Commedia dell'arte dei calamai I
$11,568
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Market237 auction results

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$1.1K – $556K
87 of 95 paintings lots with prices
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$161K
Object-type specific
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$143K
87 priced paintings lots
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Apr 2026 · $10.6K
Latest tracked sale in this object type
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Paintings: $143K medianWorks on paper: $21.7K medianPhotographs: $5.1K medianEditioned prints: $4.9K medianBooks/portfolios: $9.4K medianUnclassified lots: $180K medianDecorative/non-core: $63.8K medianEditioned objects: $111K median
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Biennial Selections2

Venice Biennale — Venice
2024 · Foreigners Everywhere · curated by Adriano Pedrosa
documenta — Kassel
2012 · documenta (13) · curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
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Education4

Harvard University
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA, USA
University Paris
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Publications6

Exhibition Catalog 4

Etel Adnan Author
Hatje Cantz · 2026
Etel Adnan Author
Hatje Cantz · 2024
Simone Fattal Author
Hatje Cantz · 2024
Etel Adnan Author
Hatje Cantz · 2019

Group Catalog 1

Zusammen / Together: Ausgewählte Gespräche und Texte / Selected talks and texts
Hatje Cantz · 2022

Survey 1

Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting
Phaidon Press
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Current Exhibitions1

#4,845 PalaisPopulaire

Seeing Words, Reading Images: The Written Art Collection in dialogue with the Deutsche Bank Collection

Etel Adnan, Mounira Al Solh, Joseph Beuys, Osman Bozkurt, Hoy Wong Cheong, Natalie Czech, Claudia Comte, Marcel Dzama, Larissa Fassler, Meschac Gaba, Ellen Gallagher, Jenny Holzer, Annette Kelm, William Kentridge, Imi Knoebel, Ahmed Mater, Ahmad Moualla, Farhad Moshiri, Herta Müller, Shiryû Morita, Shirin Neshat, Zhijie Qiu, Karin Sander, Viviane Sassen, Yinka Shonibare, Slavs and Tatars, Agathe Snow, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Lawrence Weiner, Yang Jiechang, Inoue Yū-ichi, Charles Hossein Zenderoudi

Unter den Linden 5, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Mar 20, 2026 — Jun 18, 2026

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Past Exhibitions14

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#43 Galerie Lelong

Etel Adnan: Au coeur du silence

Etel Adnan

38 Av. Matignon, 75008 Paris, France

Mar 19, 2026 — May 7, 2026

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#924 Custot Gallery Dubai

Art Basel Qatar 2026

Etel Adnan

Alserkal Avenue | Unit No. 84 Street 6A, Al Quoz 1

Feb 3, 2026 — Feb 7, 2026

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#43 Galerie Lelong

Etel Adnan: On Paper, 1960–2021

Etel Adnan

528 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001, USA

Feb 13, 2025 — Apr 5, 2025

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#202 Sfeir-Semler

Etel Adnan Zum Hundertsten

Admiralitätstrasse 71

Feb 6, 2025 — May 7, 2025

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#6,151 Autoren Galerie 1

Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan

Luisenstraße 33, 80333 München, Germany

Oct 25, 2022 — Jan 23, 2023

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#2,057 Veta Galeria

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Etel Adnan

C. de Antoñita Jiménez, 31, 43, Carabanchel, 28019 Madrid, Spain

Feb 23, 2022 — May 24, 2022

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#43 Galerie Lelong

Etel Adnan: Discovery of Immediacy

528 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001, USA

Jan 6, 2022 — Feb 19, 2022

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#87 Leslie Sacks Gallery

Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan

2525 Michigan Ave b6, Santa Monica, CA 90404, United States

Oct 22, 2021 — Dec 31, 2021

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#43 Galerie Lelong

Etel Adnan: Light's New Measure

Etel Adnan

528 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001, USA

Oct 8, 2021 — Jan 6, 2022

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Etel Adnan: Light’s New Measure

Etel Adnan

1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128, USA

Jan 1, 2021 — Jan 1, 2022

Etel Adnan — 8 October 2021 – 10 January 2022

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#43 Galerie Lelong

Etel Adnan: Seasons

528 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001, USA

Oct 29, 2020 — Dec 23, 2020

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#135 Cristea Roberts Gallery

Etel Adnan Elsewhere

Etel Adnan

Feb 28, 2019 — Mar 30, 2019

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

New Work: Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan

151 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

Sep 1, 2018 — Jan 6, 2019

Floor 4 New Work: Etel Adnan Sept 01, 2018–Jan 06, 2019

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#31 kurimanzutto

etel adnan album à dessins

etel adnan

C. Gobernador Rafael Rebollar 94, San Miguel Chapultepec I Secc, Miguel Hidalgo, 11850 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico

Nov 6, 2017 — Nov 26, 2017

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Art Fair Appearances17

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ARCOmadrid — Madrid
2026
Art Basel Hong Kong — Hong Kong
2026
Art Basel Qatar — Doha
2026
Frieze Los Angeles — Los Angeles
2026
Miart — Milan
2026
TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht
2026
Art Basel — Basel
2025
Art Basel Hong Kong — Hong Kong
2025
Art Basel Paris — Paris
2025
artgenève — Geneva
2025
Frieze Seoul — Seoul
2025
Art Basel — Basel
2024
Frieze New York — New York
2024
Art Basel Paris — Paris
2022
Frieze London — London
2021
Frieze London — London
2020
Frieze New York — New York
2016
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